A formulation of three-dimensional residual mean flow applicable both to inertia-gravity waves and to Rossby waves

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1577-1602

  Kinoshita, Takenari ^a   Sato, Kaoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; PHASE-INDEPENDENT; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC EQUATIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

GRAVITY WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROSSBY WAVE; STOKES FORMULA;

ANDES;

EID: 84880167635     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0137.1     Document Type: Article

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